With movies, I would not buy a digital copy. A company shuts down or turns off its servers, and all of that stuff you bought goes away, which would not be fun.
When I worked taking the phone calls, the biggest thing I ran into was that the person that called in was completely under the impression that their anti-virus was up to date and good so they left it, but, in fact, only trials were installed.
And yes, I took tech support calls for an internet company, and we did get way too many calls that had nothing to do with us, so I heard alot of the bad stories.
If I had mod points left, I would mod you up like crazy. That is one of the most true statements I have ever seen.
I used to take tech support phone calls for a major internet company. I can not tell you how many times somebody would call in right after taking their pc to best buy and nothing would work correctly.
They actually talked my friend's mom into getting a wireless router, Geek Squad charged her to set it up, but they did not put the wep key into her computer, and the wep key they wrote down on the post it note was wrong. Yes, they charged for setup. That was fun fixing that one that Geek Squad did.
That dude is just mad because his idea flopped and more simple ideas, like social networking, worked.
Hey, don't get mad at me that nobody wanted your $2000 vr goggles and would rather just sign in to facebook.
Besides, whether you like the artist or not, Asher Roth is a rapper that had his starts on facebook and now is an incredibly successful rapper (last I heard he had a couple music videos on MTV and was doing just fine).
Places like facebook are a breeding ground for people to get noticed, as with the Asher Roth example.
Not everybody can be famous and no, I am still not buying your stupid, expensive vr goggles.
If a couple repair bots are built, you will be good. If all your repair bots break, well that is a problem in your code. Only use a second repair bot when the 1st one breaks. fix the first one, and then have the first one, which is now fully repaired, swap roles and become the second repair bot. Have a third repair bot as an absolute backup that will only repair if the first and second repair bots are broken, and then become the primary repair bot, while the repair bot that was last serviced will then become the new third repair bot.
As for robots, I know that Oriental Trading Company uses one, it cost them about 1million. I got a buddy who works there and he says that the machine rarely ever messes up. Seriously, it cost less than 2 million for it.
If you spend 10million on robots one year and they work for 5 years, than you are really only paying 2,000,000 a year.
Now if an employee makes 11 an hour and only works 40 hours a week, a single employee would cost the company 23760. Now if there are 60 employees, it would cost the company 1,425,600 a year.
Now we are talking about 12 hour days, 6 days a week. 60 employees would cost the company (not counting overtime pay) 2,566,080. Add in overtime, and you can see that this number is just rising and rising. If Amazon provides any type of benefits like insurance or anything, Amazon will put some money forward for that too.
It will cost more for humans than robots. If you set the system up properly, a fully automated factory would work just fine.
I am amazed about how many others started with QBasic like myself. That is not a bad thing, I was just unaware and think it is cool.
If the dude is interested, maybe start on QBasic. If your brother wants to just do cool looking stuff, maybe show him how to do flash or something of that nature.
I know that where I work, most of my best work is done behind the scenes. I get it done, tell my boss that I want to be the one to demo it to the client since it is awesome, but it ends up being an engineer and my boss demo'ing it.
I am currently an programmer analyst.
I somehow landed on the team of pretty much all really good programmers.
Now, the pay is not the best, but I do know that every 6 months, we have a review and are actually given numbers based on our performance. Now, the performance does not have to do with time barriers (unless we constantly do not hit the deadlines), but on aspects like how independent we are (i.e. we get a project and not sitting in our team mates cube the entire time asking them about it), team work (i.e. we all do our part that is given), and normal factors such as showing up to work on time and stuff like that.
I agree that with many programmers today, it is very difficult to get as noticed as some of the old school programmers since alot of code that is truly worthy of being called a breakthrough has been done already, and many of us, like myself, simply program on top of that breakthrough.
I personally think that an uber programmer can do a couple things:
1.) be given specs and know exactly how to do them. Maybe not right away, but they will be able to do it. I do it every once in awhile, and I know that some of you probably do as well. We will sit there just thinking and getting everything in place in our heads not touching the keyboard, and then everything will just click and we will go nuts
2.) Constantly learning. Some people will just refuse to quit learning, and it will show. We will be working, and then they will learn about something new, try it out, and then tell everybody else about it.
3.) Is the first person to show everybody their code. I work with a couple dudes who do this. The dudes are seriously brilliant. They will get done with a chunk of code, and want to share it with everybody. On the other side, there is one guy who will do a chunk of code and compile it, then share it so that only that person ever knows what is in that code. I just think if you an uber programmer knows they wrote something amazing, they will want, at the very least, people on their team to see it.
4.) Solve problems in other people's code extremely easily. Again, this goes back to this guy I work with. Regardless of the issue with a script kiddies code or just a programmers code, this person will look at it, think about a little bit, and then just solve it.
Of course, these are just my opinions dudes. If you think I am incorrect, I already know you will say something, I just figured I would throw this out there
What if I am playing DDR or some game where I actually stay active. I can actually gain a sweat from Tony Hawk Ride (and a good sweat at that as well).
So Microsoft will turn off or ban my X-Box when I am playing a game that keeps me active? That sounds pretty dumb if you ask me.
I have actually lost over 50 pounds. I used to weigh right around 315 and got down to 250. My motivation to get even more active with working out was playing video games that kept me active like Benami dancing games.
There are alot of games that keep up on our feet now. Microsoft would need to check and ensure I am not playing one of those games.
This will also open the door for a buttload of shovelware that keeps you active as well.
Hmm, I always called random builds of whatever I had lying around Frankensteins, not Africas.
I know they are sending these to Africa, which is cool, but I think it would be way cooler to send these out and call them Frankensteins
If Bill Gates comes into the equation, then we need to take into account more than just football players themselves. We also need to consider everybody else that has something to do with football even though they do not play it (hahaha, ask Gates the last time he touched a line of code)
We would also need to consider coaches, managers, team owners, everybody.
If you are going to narrow it down to just football players, than you need to also narrow down the IT field to just programmers.
If you are going to narrow it down to the football players that make millions (not every NFL player makes Randy Moss' salary, some do make under 1million a year), then we would need to look at some of the more notable programmers and also only high paid, high profile programmers.
Wow, that would have been awesome if my boss came in during one big project I was working on where I was working 15 hour days during the week, 15-20 hour days during the weekends for about one month straight.
I got no overtime, no free lunch from my boss. I got a paycheck for being salary, but that was it.
I am actually in the lower 10th percentile for what a programmer analyst should get paid, but since I am still new in the industry, I want to build work experience, so I am staying here until I hit at least 2 years experience.
Well, my boss did note that I push hard to hit our goals on my 1 year review of my work, but that is what I got and that was about it.
One thing I have noticed about this industry is something that I was informed about, but did not experience it until this current job, where I will have those months where I am working everyday for a minimum of 15 hours a day, and then I will hit a week or two where I have to drag something small out because I know there is nothing to do besides a small item for the next 2 weeks.
I am unsure if it is a matter of how famous the company is or how large they are.
I think it is a matter of: even in whatever city they are in, now when they even do something like put something in the classifieds or whatever they do, it will say Bing and people will directly think of Microsoft's Bing.
I agree that it is awesome that RATM is donating everything to charity, but...
It was supposedly a kick against the commercialism of Christmas and commercial dominance in the music scene, although Rage and the X-Factor winner Joe McElderry were actually signed to the same label. Despite this minor detail, it's interesting to note that this is the first song to reach the number one spot through downloads alone in the UK, and is a testament to the organizational power of social networking sites like Facebook.
Yeah, if you want to show how people can get together to slow down the commercial dominance in the music scene, especially around X-Mas time, call me crazy, but why would you select a band that is a part of that music.
I just think it is very strange to pick a band that is signed to the same label as the X-Factor dude who you did not want to have this.
The big name label that you wanted to avoid getting paid is still getting paid, so did you really do anything to fight commercial music when the exact label you wanted to fight against, you just helped get more sales.
Dude, that is not a minor detail, in fact, that is a pretty big fail there kids. Remember, if you are fighting commercialist music, do not vote for a band you like that is signed to the same label of the stuff you are fighting against.
There is no specific company policy in writing for e-mails or text messages on a company phone, but there are policies about what my company sees as appropriate behavior and inappropriate behavior.
If you are caught having inappropriate behavior be it through talking, e-mails, text messages, you will get the same penalty.
I do not see the difference here. There are also policies at my company where, lets say I am at a bar and see a guy I work with that I do not like, if I walk up to him and punch him in the face, I could still lose my job.
Even if he is doing personal stuff, he has to maintain some type of role as a leader of the community whether we like it or not, whether he does it or not, whether he likes it or not. That is what he is supposed to do.
Maybe he should not be using company property to do stuff that is not work related.
So how much did Schmidt get paid to say that?
We all know that Bing has been actively trying very hard to be a big competitor with Google, and then a big company during this tells everybody that your privacy is better protected through Microsoft.
I don't know, maybe I did not sleep enough yesterday, but the timing of this is just too good for me to not ponder why the statement happened when it did.
Besides, I am getting tired of the Bing advertisements in my 360 games. It makes me not want to use Bing since I am staring at it while I try to play DJ Hero
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Bonuses, what are those? I don't think I have ever seen one of those.
Seriously though, where I work, we get a 401(k), insurance, and free coffee. That is it.
With movies, I would not buy a digital copy. A company shuts down or turns off its servers, and all of that stuff you bought goes away, which would not be fun.
When I worked taking the phone calls, the biggest thing I ran into was that the person that called in was completely under the impression that their anti-virus was up to date and good so they left it, but, in fact, only trials were installed.
And yes, I took tech support calls for an internet company, and we did get way too many calls that had nothing to do with us, so I heard alot of the bad stories.
If I had mod points left, I would mod you up like crazy. That is one of the most true statements I have ever seen.
I used to take tech support phone calls for a major internet company. I can not tell you how many times somebody would call in right after taking their pc to best buy and nothing would work correctly.
They actually talked my friend's mom into getting a wireless router, Geek Squad charged her to set it up, but they did not put the wep key into her computer, and the wep key they wrote down on the post it note was wrong. Yes, they charged for setup. That was fun fixing that one that Geek Squad did.
What about the ones that dress like women, does that count?
Lol, you said bone
If he wants it back, why can't he just give the money back that he sold it for? That seems simple enough.
That dude is just mad because his idea flopped and more simple ideas, like social networking, worked.
Hey, don't get mad at me that nobody wanted your $2000 vr goggles and would rather just sign in to facebook.
Besides, whether you like the artist or not, Asher Roth is a rapper that had his starts on facebook and now is an incredibly successful rapper (last I heard he had a couple music videos on MTV and was doing just fine).
Places like facebook are a breeding ground for people to get noticed, as with the Asher Roth example.
Not everybody can be famous and no, I am still not buying your stupid, expensive vr goggles.
Hey, as long as you can still turn safesearch off and do a google video search, I am good. That's right, it is the best way to get porn for me.
Like if he spent his money on porn
If a couple repair bots are built, you will be good. If all your repair bots break, well that is a problem in your code. Only use a second repair bot when the 1st one breaks. fix the first one, and then have the first one, which is now fully repaired, swap roles and become the second repair bot. Have a third repair bot as an absolute backup that will only repair if the first and second repair bots are broken, and then become the primary repair bot, while the repair bot that was last serviced will then become the new third repair bot.
As for robots, I know that Oriental Trading Company uses one, it cost them about 1million. I got a buddy who works there and he says that the machine rarely ever messes up. Seriously, it cost less than 2 million for it.
If you spend 10million on robots one year and they work for 5 years, than you are really only paying 2,000,000 a year.
Now if an employee makes 11 an hour and only works 40 hours a week, a single employee would cost the company 23760. Now if there are 60 employees, it would cost the company 1,425,600 a year.
Now we are talking about 12 hour days, 6 days a week. 60 employees would cost the company (not counting overtime pay) 2,566,080. Add in overtime, and you can see that this number is just rising and rising. If Amazon provides any type of benefits like insurance or anything, Amazon will put some money forward for that too.
It will cost more for humans than robots. If you set the system up properly, a fully automated factory would work just fine.
I am amazed about how many others started with QBasic like myself. That is not a bad thing, I was just unaware and think it is cool.
If the dude is interested, maybe start on QBasic. If your brother wants to just do cool looking stuff, maybe show him how to do flash or something of that nature.
I know that where I work, most of my best work is done behind the scenes. I get it done, tell my boss that I want to be the one to demo it to the client since it is awesome, but it ends up being an engineer and my boss demo'ing it.
I am currently an programmer analyst.
I somehow landed on the team of pretty much all really good programmers.
Now, the pay is not the best, but I do know that every 6 months, we have a review and are actually given numbers based on our performance. Now, the performance does not have to do with time barriers (unless we constantly do not hit the deadlines), but on aspects like how independent we are (i.e. we get a project and not sitting in our team mates cube the entire time asking them about it), team work (i.e. we all do our part that is given), and normal factors such as showing up to work on time and stuff like that.
I agree that with many programmers today, it is very difficult to get as noticed as some of the old school programmers since alot of code that is truly worthy of being called a breakthrough has been done already, and many of us, like myself, simply program on top of that breakthrough.
I personally think that an uber programmer can do a couple things:
1.) be given specs and know exactly how to do them. Maybe not right away, but they will be able to do it. I do it every once in awhile, and I know that some of you probably do as well. We will sit there just thinking and getting everything in place in our heads not touching the keyboard, and then everything will just click and we will go nuts
2.) Constantly learning. Some people will just refuse to quit learning, and it will show. We will be working, and then they will learn about something new, try it out, and then tell everybody else about it.
3.) Is the first person to show everybody their code. I work with a couple dudes who do this. The dudes are seriously brilliant. They will get done with a chunk of code, and want to share it with everybody. On the other side, there is one guy who will do a chunk of code and compile it, then share it so that only that person ever knows what is in that code. I just think if you an uber programmer knows they wrote something amazing, they will want, at the very least, people on their team to see it.
4.) Solve problems in other people's code extremely easily. Again, this goes back to this guy I work with. Regardless of the issue with a script kiddies code or just a programmers code, this person will look at it, think about a little bit, and then just solve it.
Of course, these are just my opinions dudes. If you think I am incorrect, I already know you will say something, I just figured I would throw this out there
What if I am playing DDR or some game where I actually stay active. I can actually gain a sweat from Tony Hawk Ride (and a good sweat at that as well).
So Microsoft will turn off or ban my X-Box when I am playing a game that keeps me active? That sounds pretty dumb if you ask me.
I have actually lost over 50 pounds. I used to weigh right around 315 and got down to 250. My motivation to get even more active with working out was playing video games that kept me active like Benami dancing games.
There are alot of games that keep up on our feet now. Microsoft would need to check and ensure I am not playing one of those games.
This will also open the door for a buttload of shovelware that keeps you active as well.
Crap, now I have to let all of those strippers out of my basement.
Hmm, I always called random builds of whatever I had lying around Frankensteins, not Africas. I know they are sending these to Africa, which is cool, but I think it would be way cooler to send these out and call them Frankensteins
If Bill Gates comes into the equation, then we need to take into account more than just football players themselves. We also need to consider everybody else that has something to do with football even though they do not play it (hahaha, ask Gates the last time he touched a line of code)
We would also need to consider coaches, managers, team owners, everybody.
If you are going to narrow it down to just football players, than you need to also narrow down the IT field to just programmers.
If you are going to narrow it down to the football players that make millions (not every NFL player makes Randy Moss' salary, some do make under 1million a year), then we would need to look at some of the more notable programmers and also only high paid, high profile programmers.
I was actually going to read the blog, but it is down. Why is this on the /. frontpage when the url about why this is happening does not work?
So do we finally get Linux and Unix distros back in the netbooks instead of XP? Oh God do I hope so.
Wow, that would have been awesome if my boss came in during one big project I was working on where I was working 15 hour days during the week, 15-20 hour days during the weekends for about one month straight.
I got no overtime, no free lunch from my boss. I got a paycheck for being salary, but that was it.
I am actually in the lower 10th percentile for what a programmer analyst should get paid, but since I am still new in the industry, I want to build work experience, so I am staying here until I hit at least 2 years experience.
Well, my boss did note that I push hard to hit our goals on my 1 year review of my work, but that is what I got and that was about it.
One thing I have noticed about this industry is something that I was informed about, but did not experience it until this current job, where I will have those months where I am working everyday for a minimum of 15 hours a day, and then I will hit a week or two where I have to drag something small out because I know there is nothing to do besides a small item for the next 2 weeks.
I am unsure if it is a matter of how famous the company is or how large they are.
I think it is a matter of: even in whatever city they are in, now when they even do something like put something in the classifieds or whatever they do, it will say Bing and people will directly think of Microsoft's Bing.
I could see that hurting business.
It was supposedly a kick against the commercialism of Christmas and commercial dominance in the music scene, although Rage and the X-Factor winner Joe McElderry were actually signed to the same label. Despite this minor detail, it's interesting to note that this is the first song to reach the number one spot through downloads alone in the UK, and is a testament to the organizational power of social networking sites like Facebook.
Yeah, if you want to show how people can get together to slow down the commercial dominance in the music scene, especially around X-Mas time, call me crazy, but why would you select a band that is a part of that music.
I just think it is very strange to pick a band that is signed to the same label as the X-Factor dude who you did not want to have this.
The big name label that you wanted to avoid getting paid is still getting paid, so did you really do anything to fight commercial music when the exact label you wanted to fight against, you just helped get more sales.
Dude, that is not a minor detail, in fact, that is a pretty big fail there kids. Remember, if you are fighting commercialist music, do not vote for a band you like that is signed to the same label of the stuff you are fighting against.
There is no specific company policy in writing for e-mails or text messages on a company phone, but there are policies about what my company sees as appropriate behavior and inappropriate behavior.
If you are caught having inappropriate behavior be it through talking, e-mails, text messages, you will get the same penalty.
I do not see the difference here. There are also policies at my company where, lets say I am at a bar and see a guy I work with that I do not like, if I walk up to him and punch him in the face, I could still lose my job.
Even if he is doing personal stuff, he has to maintain some type of role as a leader of the community whether we like it or not, whether he does it or not, whether he likes it or not. That is what he is supposed to do.
Maybe he should not be using company property to do stuff that is not work related.
So how much did Schmidt get paid to say that? We all know that Bing has been actively trying very hard to be a big competitor with Google, and then a big company during this tells everybody that your privacy is better protected through Microsoft. I don't know, maybe I did not sleep enough yesterday, but the timing of this is just too good for me to not ponder why the statement happened when it did. Besides, I am getting tired of the Bing advertisements in my 360 games. It makes me not want to use Bing since I am staring at it while I try to play DJ Hero
I'd find a way to put porn on it.